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WATCHED: My first MCU movie to completion, the first Avengers movie. My brother and I had planned to watch GotG but Avengers downloaded instead. I liked it, it was a solid popcorn actioner but I felt no interest in checking out the rest of the MCU line.

It's truly Nat-rageous. Truly truly truly Nat-rageous.

"This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" was one of my go-to cheer up songs before eHarmony glommed onto it and I thought "Wild Women Do" from the Pretty Woman soundtrack was fun. Another kick in the face from 2015 on the way out the door.

Natalie Cole was great as a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race a few seasons back. But I will just say it, I have always found that post-mortem duet with her father more than a bit creepy.

"Deal Me Out" is one of the most nearly perfect episodes of television, period. It should be taught in seminars. I'm also partial to "The Trial of Henry Blake" with its big red bird with fuzzy pink feet.

They aren't that difficult to find if you don't mind borrowing someone else's.

Can I come? I have a bag of cheese puffs and a box of Fiddle Faddle I can contribute.

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" adapted from an 1890 short story by Ambrose Bierce. Dunno if it's the inspiration for the scene in question but the short story was a staple of junior high school reading lists for decades.

TCM has an app with East and West Coast feeds and a smattering of VOD but I don't know how much content is available without a cable subscription. I watched a short tonight from the Oklahoma Department of Mental Hygiene about a malevolent mantle clock that tries to murder people for too fully experiencing their…

I suppose if I really cared I could get myself a digital antenna and pick up Retro but I feel like I pay enough for cable that it should provide all of the digital sub-stations as part of the lineup. I would much rather have this than the sometimes interesting but generally inferior Decades TV and of course I'm still…

The first one is absolutely fantastic. Later installments go progressively down in quality although all remain worth watching even if you're not a completionist. Set expectations accordingly.

"GET OFF THE STAGE GRAMPAW!" was surprisingly not something I wanted to yell at Trebek for a change. Of this string of lackluster champions Johnny is the worst. Slow to select clues, slow to give responses after ringing in, incredibly irritating voice and just generally comes off like a smug son of a bitch. And that…

I got "Who was Kepler?" from watching episodes of Cosmos. You might say I picked it up…

He can't extend the time frame via phone but he can enthrall someone in person initially then order them to check back for further instructions during the control period.

Looking at the transcript it's a woman's voice that says "I need you" and Buffy goes into a trance. If Angelus was summoned or entranced by either ghost to come to the school he gives no indication of it. There's a throwaway line at the end of the episode from Buffy: "He picked me. I guess I was the one he… could…

That episode was such a cheat though. All throughout the history of these ghosts the female spirit possessed the female bodies and the male ghost the male hosts but when Buffy and Angelus are possessed that switches for no plot-related reason because Angelus can survive gunfire and Buffy can't.

Robyn and Reuben lived there ironically.

Made it home for Christmas.

Except you know they aren't going to kill off Quinn and the Widow at the same time and they especially aren't going to kill off the badass female character so the dilemma was almost entirely meaningless. That Tilda is supposedly considering it shows some air of rebellion but we already saw that in her defiance of her…